Absolute freedom Quote by Robert Crumb

Underground comics were produced by individuals - they were the auteur variety, rather than the production-line sort of comic book aimed at pleasing a…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

Underground comics were striking in that they seemed largely unedited - in a typical book, with stories by five to ten creators, some stories…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you…

— Stephen R. Bissette

Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white…

— Adrian Tomine

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and…

— Jonathan Lethem

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

— Anthony Bourdain

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

— Glenn Danzig

Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing.

— Ted Alexandro

There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is…

— Dawn Angelique

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

— Bill Watterson

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

— Joss Whedon

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

— Chris Ware